Europe picks 4 sovereign cloud providers, but one has Google
… We also asked the European Commission why it has awarded a contract for sovereign cloud services to a partnership that includes Google Cloud. …
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Phone-to-satellite services jump 25% in 8 months
… According to a February report from the Global mobile Suppliers Association GSA , D2D services have now launched in 15 countries, while 61 countries and territories are planning, evaluating, testing, or have already announced satellite-to-smartphone partnerships. …
Microsoft shivs OpenAI with new AI models for speech, images
AI + ML Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images About that partnership... Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused…
Snowflake's ongoing pitch: bring AI to data, not vice versa
…Snowflake kicked off the year by announcing a partnership with Google that brought the Chocolate Factory's Gemini model into Snowflake’s Cortex AI, its application-to-inference service. It also announced…
How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough
… ServiceNow senior vice president John Aisien, who oversees forward-deployed engineering and strategic partnerships with companies like Anthropic and Microsoft, outlined the major moves in a conversation with The Register . “AI is now infused in every package that we offer to our addressable market,… …
Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak’s Astound Broadband merge
… Alphabet made Google Fiber public in 2010 and first introduced services in Kansas City two years later. …
OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice over energy cost, regulations
… This will enable OpenAI's models to run on local, sovereign compute infrastructure for use cases such as critical public services, regulated industries like finance, research projects or national security partnerships, it claimed. …
The agentic AI boom is here; operations will decide who wins
… Built-in data services for AI AI systems are only as effective as the data that fuels them. …
Microsoft startup credits are the gift that keeps on billing
… He told us a technical lead for Microsoft Azure Subscription and Billing Management acknowledged that "while deploying the services, the system did not notify you that these credits could not be consumed with your available benefits." He received no warning when the charges began to rack up. …
Meta reveals custom AI chips it says beat Nvidia
Systems Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can’t flag obvious AI slop Social networking giant Meta has revealed details of four previously unknown custom chips powering its AI services. …